We shall fight them on the beaches!

Day 2,468, 19:55 • Published in Norway Netherlands • by M. de Ruyter


I'm writing you this while the guns are blazing. We're down to our last stand, the region of Ostlandet, with our capitol Oslo.

Please help us to fight these treacherous Brittish bastards! There CP told us they wanted a TW, and after last weeks mission they would return each and every region... Yeah right.
It's still the same old perfidious Albion, that just can't be trusted.



Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. In the days of Napoleon, of which I was speaking just now, the same wind which would have carried his transports across the Skagerak might have driven away the blockading fleet. There was always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many Sirius tyrants. Many are the tales that are told. We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre. I think that no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a searching, but at the same time, I hope, with a steady eye. We must never forget the solid assurances of sea power and those which belong to air power if it can be locally exercised.

I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our land's home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of eNorway's people – every man and woman of them. That is the will of our Parliament and the nation. The Norwegian Empire will defend to the death their native soil, aiding our good comrades to the utmost of our strength.



Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of Sirius and all the odious apparatus of Sirius rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in here in Norway, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our land, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this land or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Norwegian Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Hail our beloved Norway!



For Norway!
M. de Ruyter

Please fight them here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/military/battlefield/55052